DoJiggy

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Learning Curve Another concern is the time required to train staff on new tools. Be prepared to answer questions about costs, training, and security. Train Your Team Provide thorough training sessions, guides, and resources to ensure everyone understands how to use the platform effectively.

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Gail Perry Group

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

You can build up your teams confidence by giving your fundraisers ongoing training and practice. Are You Focusing on a Metric Like "Asks per Month?" We are all for setting clear metrics! However, some fundraisers will send proposals or make lukewarm Asks simply to hit the metric for the month. It can be so confusing!

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Grant Professionals Association

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Year to Date As you review the year so far, review your metrics to illustrate the excellent work you and your team completed. In addition to the successes, thoughtful consideration of the challenges faced can help you gain insights into areas where you need more training or different systems to ensure smoother grant processes.

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Candid

JANUARY 28, 2025

Therefore, decisions made regarding technology, the practices guiding its use, and the training provided can lead to either equitable or inequitable outcomes for those communities. She also suggests they use metrics to demonstrate the difference you make. Will a CRM system help you track your beneficiaries more effectively?

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Just Write Grants

JANUARY 9, 2025

Set Up Metrics for Success Funders want to know that their money will make an impact. Clearly outline the metrics you will use to evaluate the success of your project. For instance: If your goal is to provide job training for 500 individuals, specify how you will measure outcomes such as job placements or increased income levels.

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Gail Perry Group

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Do Your Major Gift Officers Lack Experience and Training? Here's how you can help: You cant expect your team to perform at a high level without proper training. Youcanset your team up for success when you invest in their training and professional development. We are hearing: The fundraisers are new to major gifts.

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Big Fundraising Ideas

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Key practices include setting clear objectives, analyzing metrics, and celebrating successes to foster accountability andmorale. Quantify results: Use metrics like satisfaction scores, participation rates, and budget comparisons to identify patterns. Identify trends: Look for recurring issues or standout successes.

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Think and Ink Grants

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Are obsessed with defining metrics of success and tracking program outcomes. ® provides grant writing training and discounted services to underserved 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations with budgets of less than $3 million. ® Grant Writing Training and discounted services here. Let's chat here. Get.Grants.Better.®

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Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 25, 2024

To be successful in securing grant funding, individuals must grasp the basic components involved in the grant application process, including eligibility criteria, application procedures, and evaluation metrics. A solid impact assessment includes the methods for evaluation and metrics to track progress.

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Blackbaud

JANUARY 28, 2025

Hold brand training sessions and provide simple brand guidelines so everyone feels equipped to share your story. Measure Your Progress and Refine Track Key Brand Metrics Brand clarity is about more than warm, fuzzy feelingsit also impacts measurable results. Keep an eye on: Donor Retention Rates: Are first-time donors coming back?

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Think and Ink Grants

JANUARY 13, 2025

This begins with defining your metrics of success before the project even starts. If your organization lacks expertise in grant-seeking, consider consulting professionals or training staff to bolster your efforts. Grant Writing Training and discounted services here. A well-thought-out plan is key to securing consistent funding.

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Center for Major Gifts

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

While emotion is a powerful tool, data-driven success metrics add credibility and transparency to the ask. Providing them with talking points, success stories, and impact metrics can help them feel confident when engaging potential donors. Donors appreciate knowing that their investment is backed by measurable results.

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Assel Grant Services

JULY 6, 2024

Grant Professional Association’s GrantZone has over 70 discussion threads on grant metrics, from understanding if a new position’s expectations are realistic to helping directors identify accurate metrics for a team. Having a universal understanding of what an organization hopes to gain from metrics creates purpose.

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Pamela Grow

MARCH 7, 2024

For more, check out master storyteller Vanessa Chase Lockshin’s 30 minute training. The email open rate for nonprofits is roughly 25%, according to many companies that track these metrics. Storytelling Email As in all donor comms — including your emails — let storytelling guide you. But how do you make yours engaging?

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Just Write Grants

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Calculate anticipated expenses and projected outcomes to create a “cost per outcome” metric (e.g., Highlight these metrics in your proposal to build funder confidence in your financial stewardship. To showcase this, present both the outputs (e.g., "200 students trained") and outcomes (e.g., “80%

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Planned Giving

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Making It Easy: Your Path to Legacy Giving Success For Your Team Training: Train all gift officers in planned giving basics (we saw a 35% increase in referrals). Set clear metrics for success. Build Your Team Train your gift officers. Every $1 invested in these communications generated $15 in documented planned gifts.

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GrantNews

DECEMBER 23, 2024

This lets you show real metrics and results for what you’ve been doing all year. Oral Health, Animal Health, and Youth Agricultural Leadership : Grants to nonprofit organizations for projects and programs related to oral health, animal health, or youth agricultural leadership training.

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Millionaire Grant Lady

MAY 3, 2024

Lately, it seems I can hardly open a newsletter, attend a training, or look at a conference schedule without seeing the word AI popping up everywhere. With this expertise in mind, we have tested many AI platforms, attended training on AI, and assessed the writing AI has produced for us. Can you train AI? Would you write that?

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Gail Perry Group

JANUARY 22, 2025

Its all based on thoughtful metrics like donor engagement, frequency of gifts, and giving history. We recommend that teams set individual and shared metrics for success which offer clear accountability. We recommend that every donor or prospect in a portfolio should have an engagement plan.

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Blackbaud

MARCH 13, 2024

Invest in onboarding and coaching messaging streams to train your new participants every step of the way. This metric is one to watch for the future. That’s whyreturning participants are so valuable and nonprofits need to keep stewarding, engaging, and communicating with P2P participants so they keep coming back.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Value propositions need proof points, which in nonprofits show the social return on investment by identifying and confirming the improvements and providing metrics like the percentage of the problem solved. When combined with proof points, a value proposition can transform and empower programs.

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Blackbaud

OCTOBER 8, 2024

From my experience, this reveals a gap in their skillset or lack of fundraising training, not a chronic incapacity to solicit a matching gift or monthly donation. Leverage Technology Last, think about ways that technology can play a role in this training. Is it possible to give board members an online dashboard to track their progress?

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Candid

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

By examining details about these projects, such as the project title and abstract (if available), the award amount, the location of the funded organization, and other relevant metrics, nonprofits can tailor their grant proposals to that foundation.

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Blackbaud

MARCH 21, 2024

Goals and Metrics What does success look like? Document the specific goals you plan to accomplish, including any key performance metrics (KPIs) you’ll use to measure success. For your fund accounting implementation , your goals might include a target launch date, staff training, and the ability to pull relevant reports faster.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

APRIL 14, 2023

I knew I would love the conversation the second I learned she attended Dr. Brené Brown’s Dare to Lead training, but I didn’t know that Julie had her own experiences that I related to. That is exactly how I felt when Julie Boll joined the Fundraising HayDay podcast.

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Candid

JANUARY 21, 2025

This includes not just purchasing tools but also covering costs for training, maintenance, and capacity building. How to measure success in equity with AI To ensure AI initiatives advance equity and impact, the nonprofit sector could adopt metrics that capture both quantitative and qualitative outcomes. Reframe authenticity concerns.

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Candid

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Any nonprofit can earn a Bronze, Silver, Gold, or Platinum Seal by demonstrating its commitment to transparency and sharing information about its mission, programs, financials, leadership, and/or goals and metrics. This Candid insights article details how to earn a seal and increase visibility and, in turn, fundraising potential.

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Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Evaluation Plan : A strategy for assessing the success of the project, including metrics to measure impact. Grant Writing Workshops and Training Engaging in workshops and training sessions focused on grant writing is an excellent way to improve skills and gain insights into best practices.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Providing data-backed impact reports, financial breakdowns, and key performance metrics help businesses see the tangible results of their support. As someone who approved countless corporate checks, I can tell you this: Transparency matters. But numbers alone dont tell the full story.

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Selfish Giving

JANUARY 29, 2025

Train employees to speak knowledgeably about partnership initiatives so they can authentically represent your organizations impact to customers and donors. Co-create clear success metrics that track business performance (e.g., Avoid overpromising or stretching claims. revenue growth, brand visibility) and social outcomes (e.g.,

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

OCTOBER 2, 2024

For example: A local animal shelter may host puppy yoga or dog training classes. No matter which strategies you choose, track metrics to evaluate your progress. These workshops are a valuable public service your nonprofit can provide to foster new connections and draw attention to your mission.

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Candid

AUGUST 18, 2021

Machine learning technology uses these patterns to train predictive algorithms that will measure specific propensities and make predictions. The most user-friendly AI tools will provide these insights in the form of predictive scores and rank metrics.

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Blue Avocado

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

While most who responded would agree that counting the number of program participants, clients served, and funds raised each year are solid metrics, success looks different to every organization. ” The entire Blue Avocado team was amazed by the number of thoughtful and enlightening answers that nonprofit leaders like you shared!

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Candid

MAY 14, 2024

A social media audit involves reviewing your organization’s complete social media presence, not just analyzing the metrics (to learn about assessing metrics, read my article on creating a social media plan ). Like your annual spring cleaning, it’s something you should do every year, and it’s a great way to clean up your digital space.

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The NonProfit Times

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

NCOA President & CEO Ramsey Alwin said the “mysterious process” was about six months in the making, having received a request to share information about its work, mission and social impact metrics. “We We didn’t know where it was coming from,” she said in a Zoom interview with The NonProfit Times today.

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GrantNews

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The order and word usage will differ but they each contain the following sections: Project Goals Scope of Work Current Roadblocks and Barriers to Success Evaluation Metrics and Criteria Submission Requirements These categories are all geared toward helping you ascertain whether your organization will qualify for funding.

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Candid

APRIL 6, 2022

The program was initially comprised of five organizations (Lone Star Justice Alliance, Girl Scouts of Central Texas, Community Advocacy and Healing Project, Hearts2Heal, and MEASURE), all tethered by one metric of serving youth. The Innocence Initiative tools we used led to amazing results!

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